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Signed on first blank page: Frank CormierClean text. Price unclipped ($8.95). Protected by Brodart dust jacket cover. Book and dust jacket in very good plus condition. Frank Cormier was the long-time Dean of White House Correspondents and was the reporter who started the tradition of ending White House Press Conferences with, "Thank you Mr. President." Cormier was in the motorcade in Dallas during the Kennedy assassination. This book details some of the outrageous behavior of LBJ.

Association Copy. A beautifully copy inscribed. To Ted Achilles, With appreciation for his service to his nation from Richard Nixon (Ted Achilles was a career diplomat who served as the Ambassador to Peru for President Truman. President Eisenhower named Achilles, Counselor to the State Department, where he was the head of a Special Task Force preparing for the Bay of Pigs Invasion)First edition in beautiful condition. Book in fine condition and dust jacket nearly fine with only a few tiny chips in the top of the spine and a few barely noticeable chips at the bottom of spine. Clean text. Unclipped ($17.50). Protected by Brodart book jacket cover. The former president draws portraits of major political and military figures of our times--including Douglas MacArthur, Shigeru Yoshida, Konrad Adenauer, Charles de Gaulle, Zhou Enlai, Mao, Winston Churchill, Nikita Khrushchev, and Leonid Brezhnev.A review of the book in 1982 by the Christian Science Monitor included this in part. Richard Nixon will… Read More

Inscribed by the famous economist on the first page: With my best regards, JK Galbraith (see picture) (writing in pencil from previous owner regarding signature)Book in very good plus condition, with a very good dust jacket with only tiny nicks at top of spine and some fading on spine. Clean text. Price clipped. Protected by Brodart book jacket cover. Canadian-born American economist and public servant known for his support of public spending and for the literary quality of his writing on public affairs. He was one of the most literate economists in that he was widely read and he focused a lot on how to convey his ideas in his writing, and not just to other economists but to the entire world. Mr. Galbraith was the most widely read economist of the 20th century and was also considered one of the most influential.

Limited First Edition privately printed and personally signed by Gore Vidal exclusively for members of the The Signed First Edition Society. Signature on first blank page (see pictures).Laid in original letter to Collector from Publisher of The Franklin Library introducing the book and Gore Vidal.Clean text. Previous owner book plate is attached on second blank page.

Beautifully inscribed on first page: For Joe O'Leary Who knows how important the success of this book is to the Reston Family! With best wishes, Jim Reston Washington Nov. 1989Clean text. Price unclipped ($25.00). Protected by Brodart book jacket cover.From Publishers Weekly...Former navy secretary, governor of Texas and treasury secretary John Connally is roughly handled in this well-researched and absorbing biography. Reston developed a theory that Lee Harvey Oswald's target was Texas Governor John Connally, not President John F. Kennedy.Reston ( Our Father Who Art in Hell ) probes Connally's campaign management of Lyndon Johnson's 1948 senatorial election, his insensitivity to blacks and Hispanics as governor, his participation in Watergate planning and stonewalling, his 1975 bribery and conspiracy trial (he was acquitted) and his 1986 declaration of bankruptcy followed by the auction of nearly $3 million in personal possessions. Reston explores in depth the symbiotic relationship between Connally… Read More

Inscribed: With best wishes, Robert DallekClean text. Price unclipped ($30.00). Protected by Brodart dust jacket cover. From Publishers Weekly...Dallek sums up his subject, the 36th U.S. president, in this generous and touching sentence: ``If Lyndon Johnson demanded much and took much, he also gave much in return.'' In the initial book of this two-volume biography, Dallek ( Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Foreign Policy, 1932-1945 ) reconstructs Johnson's Texas childhood, his 1937 election to the House, his war experiences as a Navy officer, election to the Senate in '49, his years as ``the greatest Senate majority leader in history,'' and finally his selection as John Kennedy's running mate in 1960. LBJ as wheeler-dealer is already a familiar figure, but Dallek, tracing the origin of the War on Poverty and the Great Society to Johnson's experiences and observations as a young man, reveals that much of the wheeling and dealing was an expression of Johnson's genuine interest in helping the… Read More

Inscribed on first blank page: To J.O. Garber With best wishes Robert NovakClean text. Price unclipped ($7.95). Protected by Brodart dust jacket cover.Book in very good condition and dust jacket in good condition with few tears on top near spine, on top of spine and fading on spine.